1 day ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$329k - $362k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-year technical vision and architecture for machine learning, generative AI, and agentic-experience platforms.
- Lead high-impact platform initiatives involving multi-provider inference resiliency and information retrieval infrastructure for agentic systems.
- Establish self-service standards, paved paths, guardrails, usage attribution, metering, spend controls, and onboarding for platform users.
- Make foundational trade-offs across quality, latency, reliability, cost, responsible data use, instrumentation, and observability.
- Own SLOs, capacity planning, on-call, incident response, graceful degradation, and recovery for the platform.
- Set technical direction across teams, build alignment with engineering and leadership, and mentor engineers through design and code review.
Requirements
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production software, distributed systems, cloud services, or related infrastructure.
- Sustained experience designing and owning foundational systems or platforms with organization- or company-wide impact.
- Deep expertise in one or more of machine learning, generative AI, distributed systems, data infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Expert proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or Rust.
- History of setting technical direction across multiple teams and completing large cross-organizational initiatives.
- Exceptional communication and influence skills across engineering, product, and leadership.
- Preferred experience with LLM gateways, inference serving, model routing, vector databases, similarity search, knowledge graphs, RAG, agentic systems, multi-tenant platforms, GPU infrastructure, or ML inference efficiency.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- For San Mateo headquarters roles, the starting annual base salary range is $328,610–$362,280 USD.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.
- Roblox provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process for qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs.
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About Roblox
Roblox builds a platform for user‑generated 3D experiences, offering Roblox Studio for creators and a social marketplace where players explore and interact across devices. Its business model centers on virtual currency (Robux) and subscriptions, platform fees paid to creators, and an expanding advertising offering. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBLX.